Marc F. Clemente wrote: > Then there is the question of America/Detroit. I travel to the East > Coast of the US. Do I pick America/Detroit or America/New_York? > What's the difference and how would I know? Should I pick > America/Detroit only when I am in Detroit, or when I am in Michigan, > or on the East Coast?
Only matters if you care about history and would like to be able to get correct DST values for Detroit when using dates in eg, the 1940s. The "northamerica" file in the tzdata source is amusing reading. > I like to old system where I just pick the time zone US/Central, but I > am offended that the system now changes it to America/Chicago. It's unfortunate that tzdata's postinst does that. It does not match common usage in the US which is to use the US/Eastern, US/Pacific, etc zones. The Debian Installer's tzsetup writes /etc/timezone using those names, but tzdata then comes along and rewrites it to use the confusing city names. -- see shy jo
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